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Okay.
I spent a lot of November First feeling like crap.
Partly, maybe even mostly, I suspect, because I didn't meet my self-imposed deadline of "get the book drafted by Hallowe'en".
BUT.
I dug my bicycle out from underneath the mountain of bikes and other... stuff... that were piled on top of it and then last night, my wife pumped up the tires and did some other minor maintenance on it and TODAY, because the tires had not deflated over night, I went for a little bike ride after I finished my short day of work.
I went down to the Autumn Stone and made (late) Samhain offerings - Pumpkin-cranberry barley pudding, pumpkin soul cake, sauteed chicken hearts, white wine, and whiskey - and said a general Hello and Thank You.
And then I pedaled away westwards.
My round trip was all of 5km.
Which is less than half of what I was doing the last time I was biking, like, at all.
But I still did it. And I'm less tired and a LOT less sore than I would be had I walked the same distance (which I do every time I go to the library).
So, while I would have liked it if my hips and knees had held off Getting Uncomfortable for another 2-3km (thus signally my time to turn around) I'm still glad I got out and I think that, with regular riding, I'll be able to go farther eventually.
Note: I will not be Winter Biking. This purely for fair-weather leisure (and endurance-building, and core/leg-muscle building, but S L O W L Y) activities. So we'll see how long into November I get to do this stuff. I'm assuming Maybe Two Weeks, but we'll see.
In other news: I turn 43 next Monday.
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
I spent a lot of November First feeling like crap.
Partly, maybe even mostly, I suspect, because I didn't meet my self-imposed deadline of "get the book drafted by Hallowe'en".
BUT.
I dug my bicycle out from underneath the mountain of bikes and other... stuff... that were piled on top of it and then last night, my wife pumped up the tires and did some other minor maintenance on it and TODAY, because the tires had not deflated over night, I went for a little bike ride after I finished my short day of work.
I went down to the Autumn Stone and made (late) Samhain offerings - Pumpkin-cranberry barley pudding, pumpkin soul cake, sauteed chicken hearts, white wine, and whiskey - and said a general Hello and Thank You.
And then I pedaled away westwards.
My round trip was all of 5km.
Which is less than half of what I was doing the last time I was biking, like, at all.
But I still did it. And I'm less tired and a LOT less sore than I would be had I walked the same distance (which I do every time I go to the library).
So, while I would have liked it if my hips and knees had held off Getting Uncomfortable for another 2-3km (thus signally my time to turn around) I'm still glad I got out and I think that, with regular riding, I'll be able to go farther eventually.
Note: I will not be Winter Biking. This purely for fair-weather leisure (and endurance-building, and core/leg-muscle building, but S L O W L Y) activities. So we'll see how long into November I get to do this stuff. I'm assuming Maybe Two Weeks, but we'll see.
In other news: I turn 43 next Monday.
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee!